Nadir Lahiji

Architecture or Revolution

Emancipatory Critique After Marx

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Produktbeschreibung

All those concerned with the predicament in our current condition in which architecture must play a major social role in upholding the universal value of what Alain Badiou calls 'generic humanity' will take an interest in this work. In particular, architects, critics, scholars and students inside the field of architecture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 185mm x 121mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9780367425487
• ISBN-10: 0367425483
• Artikelnr.: 60000944

Autorenporträt

Nadir Lahiji is an architect. He is most recently the author of An Architecture Manifesto: Critical Reason and Theories of a Failed Practice (Routledge, 2019). His previous publications include, among others, Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy, and the co-authored The Architecture of Phantasmagoria: Specters of the City.

Inhaltsangabe

Apologue: Revolution, Critique, and Return to Philosophy Exordium: Learning
from Valéry Reading Marx Critical Pedagogy: Architecture or Revolution
PART 1 1. The Blank Wall: Architecture and the French Revolution
Architecture and Bourgeoisie Invention of the Blank Wall Theses on the
Blank Wall Virtue and Terror The Blank Wall and Philosophy of Revolution 2.
The Architecture of Bonapartism Corbusianismand Bonapartism Keynesianism
and Corbusianism Neo-Bonapartism and Specters of Le Corbusier PART 2 3.
Marx and CritiqueCritique and Enlightenment Transcritique Critique and the
Unconscious 4. Transcritique of ArchitectureThe Sublime Object of Critique
Phantasmagoria of Architecture Architecture and the Capitalist Unconscious
PART 3 5. Toward A Philosophy of Shelter Shelter, Not A Lofty Tower
Universality of Shelter and the Philosophy of Right Coda: In Defence of
Marx Index